Three things I will do to get better at math:
1. Practice: I have never been good with advanced math. However, I am not going to be a calculus teacher; I will be explaining area and perimeter and circumference to student.
2. Talk with Dr. Jones or other math professionals at Central who have both classroom experience and professional experience. I will ask her about what features of math she found students to have trouble with the most and how she dealt with it. Are there any resources that you recommend for a new teacher to have/use?
3. Try and use more math in my daily life. DO math long hand instead of using a calculator.
Thinglink:
Multiplication 3rd grade: Using Candy
Learning Objectives
Students will use equal groups and repeated addition to understand the concept of multiplication.
Lesson
Introduction (1 minutes)
Students that today they will begin learning about multiplication.
Students will see that multiplication can be thought of as repeated addition of equal groups.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (9 minutes)
Write an example multiplication problem on the board. For example: 4 x 3
Tell your students that the x (multiplication sign) means the same thing as groups of. Explain this in the context of your example: This problem can be read as 4 groups of 3.
Explain that in this equation, the numbers 4 and 3 are each known as a factor. Define factors as the numbers we can multiply together to get another number.
Draw 4 circles and put 3 dots in each circle, to illustrate 4 groups of 3.
Count each of the dots as a class. Once you're finished, write the entire equation on the board: 4 x 3 = 12
Tell your students that the answer to a multiplication problem is known as the product.
Explain to your class that multiplication problems can be represented as repeated addition of the same number. Using the white board, join the circles you drew with plus signs, and write an addition equation that matches your example multiplication problem. For example: 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 12.
Tell students that they will be using candy to figure out multiplication problems today.
Using an interactive whiteboard, document camera, or projector, display the Candy Math Recording Sheet to the class.
Independent Working Time (20 minutes)
On the board write five more multiplication problems that students can work on at their own pace. For example: 3 x 6, 7 x 2, 2 x 4, 6 x 3, 8 x 3.
Circulate around the classroom as students are working to monitor accuracy.
Closure
Tell students that today they learned two strategies that they can use to solve multiplication problems.
1. Practice: I have never been good with advanced math. However, I am not going to be a calculus teacher; I will be explaining area and perimeter and circumference to student.
2. Talk with Dr. Jones or other math professionals at Central who have both classroom experience and professional experience. I will ask her about what features of math she found students to have trouble with the most and how she dealt with it. Are there any resources that you recommend for a new teacher to have/use?
3. Try and use more math in my daily life. DO math long hand instead of using a calculator.
Thinglink:
Multiplication 3rd grade: Using Candy
Learning Objectives
Students will use equal groups and repeated addition to understand the concept of multiplication.Lesson
Introduction (1 minutes)
Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (9 minutes)
Independent Working Time (20 minutes)
Closure
Resource:
Jennifer Armstrong
https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/candy-multiplication/